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Explainer: After nine straight nights of strikes, where is the US-Iran conflict headed?

The US carried out a ninth consecutive night of military strikes against Iran early on Monday, targeting command centres, missile facilities, air defence systems, maritime assets and communications infrastructure. The latest developments indicate the conflict is expanding beyond direct military exchanges, with growing implications for regional security, global energy supplies and international shipping. Here is what to know. Why are the US strikes continuing? President Donald Trump said US forces had struck Iran “very hard,” describing the operations as retaliation for the deaths of US service members in the Middle East. The latest casualty on the US side came in northern Iraq, where a service member was killed during the controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance recovered from a downed Iranian drone. According to American media, at least 17 US soldiers have been killed since Feb 28, when the US and Israel attacked Iran. Strait of Hormuz at the heart of the co...
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US Supreme Court to weigh Trump's power to limit asylum processing

The United States Supreme Court is set on Tuesday to hear a defense by President Donald Trump's administration of the government's authority to turn away asylum seekers when officials deem US-Mexico border crossings too overburdened to handle more claims. The legal dispute centers on a policy called "metering" that the Republican president's administration may seek to revive after it was dropped by Trump's Democratic predecessor Joe Biden. The policy allowed US immigration officials to stop asylum seekers at the border and indefinitely decline to process their claims. Read: Trump threatens to put ICE agents in airports over funding impasse The Trump administration has appealed a lower court's finding that the policy violated federal law. This policy is separate from the sweeping ban on asylum at the border that Trump announced after returning to the presidency last year. That policy also faces an ongoing legal challenge. Under US law, a migrant who "arrives in the United States" may apply for asylum and must be inspected by a federal immigration official. The narrow legal issue in the current case is whether asylum seekers who are stopped on the Mexican side of the border have arrived in the US. US immigration officials began turning away asylum seekers at the border in 2016 under Democratic former President Barack Obama amid a migrant surge. The metering policy was formalised in 2018 during Trump's first term in office, with border officials authorised to decline processing asylum claims when the government decides it is unable to handle additional applications. Biden rescinded the policy in 2021. The Trump administration in court papers told the Supreme Court it likely would resume the use of metering "as soon as changed border conditions warranted that step," without providing specifics. Read More: Trump puts off threat to bomb Iran power grid as Pakistan, Turkiye, Egypt reportedly mediate to end conflict The advocacy group Al Otro Lado launched the long-running legal challenge in 2017. The San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in 2024 ruled that federal law requires border agents to inspect all asylum seekers who "arrive" at designated border crossings, even if they have not yet crossed into the US, and the metering policy violated that obligation. The Trump administration argued in court papers that the words "arrive in" refer to "entering a specified place, not just coming close to it." "An alien who is stopped in Mexico does not arrive in the United States," Justice Department lawyers wrote. A ruling in the case is expected by the end of June. Also Read: China assessing US Supreme Court tariff ruling; says 'fighting is harmful' The Supreme Court has backed Trump in several immigration-related rulings issued on an emergency basis since his return to the presidency, including allowing him to deport migrants to countries other than their own and to revoke temporary legal status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants in the US. The justices next week are due to hear arguments over the legality of Trump's directive to restrict birthright citizenship in the US. Next month, the court will hear arguments in the administration's bid to revoke temporary legal protections for more than 350,000 Haitians and about 6,100 Syrians living in the US.

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